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[tithonium]

http://www.redferret.net/?p=9876

If I had the money, I'd seriously consider tossing them Lunch-o-clock.

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[spinnerin-ftw.livejournal.com]

Even with talented programmers, I'm a bit skeptical about the three days thing.

Lunch-o-Clock would be a good project for Startup Weekend or a code sprint, though.

[tithonium.livejournal.com]

Tell me more.

[spinnerin-ftw.livejournal.com]

Startup Weekend (http://startupweekend.com/) is a traveling event where attendees build a start-up in a weekend. There's one coming up in Portland over Memorial Day weekend. I'm not sure how they decide on the project, though.

For Calagator (http://calagator.org/) we (sorta) hijacked the local code sprint group, which gets together a couple times a month to practice agile programming. Anyone can bring a project, but I recruited people in advance so I knew we'd actually get work done. The Seattle Ruby Brigade does something similar with weekly meetings, but I think most of their projects are more like Ruby tools than general-use services.